Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

65 reviews

giulianalb99's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Rape, Self harm, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Blood, Drug use, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Cursing and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

enchantressreads's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Bullying, Suicide, Child death, Body horror, Sexual assault, Self harm, and Vomit

Minor: Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

toffishay's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

A dark, exciting, mysterious fairytale. There are some heavy themes and things certainly get intense, but I was really pleased by the way the story comes together...even when things get dark and sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Sexism, Murder, Violence, Gore, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Blood, Death, Vomit, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Body horror, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

There are some detailed descriptions of rot and death that some readers might be sensitive to.

nicole_zx's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

Minor: Self harm

kaylascozyreads's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Self harm

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Alcohol

sofiacanread's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I loved this book!! As of late, I’ve steered clear of “YA” because I find the tropes and forced romance annoying, but this book was not at all like that. I would say it’s most comparable to Wilder Girls and Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power (both excellent books as well). It’s very well written and the mystery will have you guessing until the end. So good!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Body horror, Self harm, and Suicide

elaureads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide, Body horror, Vomit, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Dementia, Death, Death of parent, Bullying, and Child death

wikikapusta's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, and Self harm

Minor: Death of parent, Death, Vomit, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, and Gore

dovewrites's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

3.5 - 4. The writing is of good quality and I appreciated that the author managed to keep the tone despite the book being set in modern times. This book has an incredible fairy-tale quality and it’s impressive that mentions of social media and the sims 4 did not disrupt that feeling. The explorations of femininity and the grotesque were very compelling and exciting to read in a YA novel. The character building was so interesting, I’ve read that some people feel like Iris is bland

but I think she’s supposed to be, she is so intimately linked to her sisters and especially to Grey- she has no self- until the end, when we see a glimmer of her becoming something more.

My only grips are that the Americanisms did disjoint me a little and If this book is a stand-alone why was the ending written like it’s setting up for a second book? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Vomit, Child death, Child abuse, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, and Self harm

r1vana's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Strangeness only bred strangeness, and it felt dangerous to tempt fate, to invite in the darkness that seemed already naturally drawn to us. 

This book had me on edge the whole time.

The plot twist was completely unexpected. Mind blowing.

Never seen or something like this before. Even though the chapters were “short”, it did kept me hanging.

The cover is beautiful. And the plot is dark, twisted and mysterious. I would probably guessed the plot, if I didn’t binged this book. 

I really enjoyed how the author brought the Halfway aka the place between life and death. 

It did remind me of Stranger Things; the parallel world.

When it comes to characters we see the three sisters: Grey, Vivi and Iris:

"My sisters. My blood. My skin. What a gruesome bond we shared." 

 

One day, all three of them disappeared for a month and when they come back, their life, the town and their parents were never the same. 

The town taught that they might be dark witches. Their father realizes that their daughters are not the ones he raised. And the girls do not have any memory of their “previous” life. 

Now, in present time, all three Hallow sisters are different:

Grey is a really popular model

Vivi is in a music band and loves women

Iris is in high school and is shown as quiet and loner-ish.

I love the bond they share. They can understand each other’s feelings and can locate where the others are…. 

The plot had me engaging. But the characters seemed unfortunately bland. Maybe it’s bcz it’s only in Iris’s pov. 

I did like Tyler’s character. He grew on me. 

he didn’t have to be skinned alive and death tho… and also the plot twist?! Grey killing the old Hallow sisters in order to take their place… that was so F-up…

I wished we had a chapter with the “few years later”.  

TW: bullying; PTSD; self harm and alcohol consummation; kidnapping; murder; blood; nudity

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Kidnapping, Gun violence, and Self harm